Animal Motifs: AJW seemed to associate her with neither foxes nor gorillas, as her ring names would suggest, but cats. It was consistent, since Zenjo had been equally determined to link Aja Kong to piranha.

Arch-Enemy: Gail Kim in TNA, their feud eventually becoming the focal point of the company's "knockout" division. Taylor Wilde after Gail Kim departed for WWE.

Ax-Crazy: Her defining trait in TNA, though it later turned out Raisha Saeed was crazier (if less dangerous without Kong around).

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Awesome, but Impractical: She did an intricate series of twirls with a kendo stick in an attempt to intimidate a steel chair wielding Roxxi Laveau, only to be laughed at, then kicked and battered. Kong got her revenge, though, once she managed to get her own chair.

Before she went to Japan and became the fearsome Amazing Kong, the producers on Discovery Health Body Challenge had a fit when American Dragon busted Vixen's lips and nose, but she cleaned herself up, said it was not ballet, and went back at it with him.

Amazing Kong was to be featured on a Japanese game show but was politely asked to leave the set after busting open a contestant. She was supposed to backhand him (a la Masahiro Chono) but hit a little too hard.

Berserk Button: When Bubba the Love Sponge made a rude comment about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, the normally mild-mannered backstage Kong went off the deep-end and beat the living hell out of Bubba.

Braids of Action: Meant to be harder to grab, though The Beautiful People still used them to their advantage, tying her hair to the chain links of a steel cage. Besides the usual, she's also wrestled in cornrows.

Brawn Hilda: By Amazing Kong's descriptions of herself, she would fit, such as her (false) claims to have an Adam's apple. To her displeasure, men are undeterred. Dragon Gate ran an angle about her having to deal with a persistent stalker (the eponymous Stalker Ichikawa), culminating in fighting off him and a friend he called (DJ Nira) for a handicap match.

By the Hair: The promotional photo shoot hyping Amazing Kong, LuFisto and MsChif's triple threat match for the SHIMMER title was cut short when Kong latched onto the hair of the other two and dragged them.

Dragon-in-Chief: While working with Raisha Saeed. Awesome Kong was already excessively violent, but Raisha coaxed her to be more vindictive. Gail's sister would have never became involved in their feud if it wasn't for Saeed, for example, and the Kongtourage was Raisha's idea.

Early Installment Weirdness: Her various leopard printed gear. For that matter, her "street clothes", for lack of a better term, though the latter would come back at times.

Enemy Mine: With Angelina Love in SHINE due to Valkyrie. The second thing she did upon returning to TNA was lay out the Beautiful People and DJ Z of the BroMans(back to business as usual) Then with Gail Kim in TNA after Marti Belle and Jade prevented Awesome Kong from becoming Knockout champion again, though Kim tried to reason with "Dollhouse" first.

Evil Laugh: Kharma's defining trait in WWE, it even accompanied the first few notes of her entrance music.

Evil vs. Evil: With the Beautiful People, who were convinced Awesome Kong needed a makeover.

Facial Markings: Black spots under her eyes when she teamed with Sara Del Rey. This seemed to be inspired by MsChif's own face paint when one looked at her and Melissa at the same time as Kong and Del Rey.

Finishing Move: A modified King Kong Buster, not officially named on WWE television but known in TNA as the Implant Buster. Also the Awesome/Amazing Bomb, a sit-out powerbomb (similar to the one used by Mike Awesome). Though if WWE '12 and WWE '13 are to be believed, they fully intended to keep the Implant Buster's name during her run with the company.

Flipping the Bird: Both birds to TEAM SUN when Double Kong came back together to take them on at ZERO1 Celebration Return in Zeros. (They had been together already that year, but in HUSTLE mostly)

Girlish Pigtails: Margarete had them, still braided and in various shades of blonde, naturally

Grievous Harm with a Body: Amazing Kong and Nanae Takahashi ended up battering each other with Toshie Uematsu as Kong was trying to recruit Uematsu into REM and Takahashi was trying to recruit her into the Dream Catchers.

Hero Killer: Was being built up as one until her pregnancy got in the way.

The reason she lost to Gail Kim in many of their TNA matches, as she would repeatedly sabotage herself and then blame the referees for it. In one instance, she power bombed the "offending" ref for not giving her the count she wanted and then was about to do the same to the replacement, which allowed Gail to roll her up while she was performing a lift to get extra leverage using the poor man.

Amy Lee often passed out in matches with Awesome Kong. The second time this happened in WSU, Kong was going to hit Lee with a chair but she fell over, causing the chair to bounce on the ropes and back on Kong's own head, leaving them both down.

I Have the High Ground: Used a diving senton to win the AWA World Women's title after several amazing presses failed to put away then champion Nanae Takahashi.

Kick the Dog: She's beaten up LuFisto quite a few times, but possibly the biggest and definitely most unnecessary insult Amazing Kong gave "The Super Hardcore Anime" was using Peegaboo to scratch her butt. Incidentally, that was one of the few matches LuFisto didn't lose(they broke even) and lead to a triple threat match where Kong would suffer her first pin fall loss in SHIMMER (to MsChif but she had been worn down by LuFisto first).

Lady Legionnaire Wear: Kong went through several "warrior woman" looks in Zenjo before settling on this. She briefly dropped for a nightclub bouncer look in SHIMMER, SHINE and PWS but ended up modifying the old gear to fit her leaner body. Not only was it an Iconic Out Fit, but it allowed her charge directly into other "armor", of The Midwest Militia and Made In Sin.

When she made her WWE debut, seemed to be focusing on the Heel Divas. In other words, Kharma's biting them in the assHARD. WWE has been criticized in the past for giving some of its talent roster names that are goofy, strange, or just plain bad, with the notorious "Braden Walker" being considered a lowlight. Many people were pleasantly surprised when word got out that WWE had trademarked the name "Kharma," which was generally agreed to be pretty damn cool.

Not to mention the fact that her logo◊ was stylized with the first and last letters a noticeably lighter shade of purple, emphasizing the harm of KHARMA.

Mighty Glacier: When this first started setting in she lost weight to offset it but then her knees start to deteriorate, preventing her from running around like she used too. She can still split people open and hoist them overhead, if she can catch them...

Multicolored Hair: Most of her braids are black, but several of them are yellow and some of them are white. On her 2015 return to TNA, she sported red braids similar in shade to Havok's red strands.

Nearly always, excepting her masked and Margarete gimmicks. However, this was less so in Sun when dealing Toshie Uematsu and the Dream Catchers. And completely obliterated at Lexie Fyfe's Slammin Ladies, as soon as you read her profile.

Also subverted in the NWA, when she threatened to call Al Sharpton after being excluded from the the World Heavyweight Championship Tournament and urged the fans to write protest letters.

One Steve Limit: Even though they probably should have done it before she debuted as Amazing Kong, TNA changing her name to something else made sense, since they already had an Amazing Red running around. However, what they chose, Awesome Kong, was already the name of a male wrestler known for runs in Texas and WCW. That would not have been so noticeable if TNA did not mine WCW for material and thus draw attention to this.

Paper-Thin Disguise: Ignoring that the prior T1 Mask was sort of pale skinned, she also didn't come up to Kong's shoulders. Down played in that this was mostly just to disassociate their identities, rather than convince anyone they were the same person.

Parts Unknown: In Shimmer, her weight was announced as "none of your damn business".

Signature Move: The Accordion Rack, a particularly sick version of the bow and arrow stretch but elevated on her back. Despite not being a go-to finishing move, it often does get submissions even from the resilient MsChif. Also the spinning back fists from Aja Kong; though not quite as deadly as hers (perhaps because this Kong mostly spins on whiffs), they have drawn blood and knocked jaws out of place.

Awesome Kong arrived out of nowhere and squashed TNA knockout champion Gail Kim, no selling all of her offense and terrifying all the other knockouts who had either lost to or had to cheat to beat Gail.

WSU's "Boy Diva" Rick Cataldo and Roxxie Cotton had gotten together backstage and announced their intentions to avenge their losses suffered at the hands of Amy Lee, then came out into the ring to prove how formidable they could be against a "mystery" opponent. Cue Awesome Kong squashing them both and becoming Amy Lee's next challenge.

In WWE, the main feud saw the "Divas Of Doom" Beth Phoenix and Natalya against the rest of the roster for allegedly being effeminate Barbie Dolls, divas champion Kelly Kelly in particular. The secondary feud saw former champions Laycool at each other's throats. At the end of the secondary feud, Kharma arrived, sent Michelle McCool off with authority, and displaced Beth and Natalya as Kelly's biggest concern.

She had runs with the Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling tag team titles alongside Eagle Sawai, the NEO Tag Team Titles with Haruka Matsuo, then with Kyoko Kimura and the Knockout tag team titles alongside Ayako Hamada in TNA.

However, her most frequent and successful team was Double(or W) Kong, with Aja Kong. They also teamed up in Fighting Opera HUSTLE as Ericanote Aja Kong's real name is Erika Shishido and Margarete, doing a comedy gimmick as girly-girl babyfaces.

The Ace: Did double duty defending both the NWA Women's title belt and AWA women's title belt actively.

The Dreaded: To most if not every other female wrestler. For context even as a face she would head out, stalk the likes of Kelly Kelly who at the time was a multi time champion and face of the divas, before attacking her heel opponent. All this time Kelly would be frozen in fear, hoping, praying that she escapes notice, despite Kharma acting as an ally.

The Quiet One: Amazing Kong didn't speak much, and when she did, it was mostly Japanese. Though this was less the case in Zero 1/SUN as part of REM, where she had a lot of English trash to talk. She kept talking for awhile when coming back to the USA but gradually went quiet again, even quieter than before. She said one word during her entire TNA run and remained stoic in most contemporary to it up until she announced her sabbatical at the end of her short WWE run. It has become less a thing after Jazz talked Amazing Kong into returning to wrestling at SHINE 5, as the return was preceded by Kong cutting a 28 second promo, which doesn't sound like much, but soon enough she was back to talking regularly. When she returned to TNA she became more quiet again, but was no longer portrayed as being averse to speaking Englishjust sparing her words for when she felt the need to use them.

Her biggest in Japan, and possibly her entire career, is Nanae Takahashi, particularly in AJW but also in Zero 1 and Sun. Considering how long they've been at it, they made a surprisingly good team in NEO Women's Pro Wrestling, though Kong's best known for beating Takahashi's regular partner, Saki Maemura.

Seems to have picked up Ayako Hamada from Aja Kong; she rotates between friend and foe, but any bitterness seems to have washed away. Also picked up the mysterious Arisin Z. One of the first orders of business in the then new SEAdLINNNG promotion was to reunite Hamada and Nanae Takahashi, which in turn lead to return of "W Kong".

While Gail Kim and Taylor Wilde were her most frequent and most bitter opponents in TNA, ODB was a persistent one as well. Though it was kind of one sided, ODB did managed to beat Kong a few times and did a much better job in F1rst Wrestling. The two even teamed up against The Beautiful People.

After losing to SHIMMER Champion Sara Del Rey by count out, Kong threw Del Rey out of the ring and demanded the referee count her out when defending her own NWA Women's World title belt. Instead the referee gave the win to Del Rey by DQ. The two teamed up after they both lost their belts to MsChif, but ended up back at each other's throats before long. Every time Kong has shown up in ROH it was at the behest of Haze or the Briscoes against Del Rey.

Too Many Belts: Two too many around the waist of her most common black gear set. She used to go without them, so they could be weight lost adjustment or something.

Had to go the extra mile to get booed during her SHIMMER run. When Kellie Skater debuted and declared herself invincible Kong was the first name chanted (LuFisto got a big pop though)

By her second appearance in WWE, she was getting louder pops than the rest of the Divas locker room combined, and she hadn't even been in an actual match yet! She antagonized everyone too, but the villains got it the worst.

Villainous Breakdown: When Kharma interrupted an 8-Diva tag match, instead of beating everyone up like she usually would, she fell to her knees in the middle of the ring and began crying as the divas surrounded her. The next week we found out why.

Villainous Rescue: Havok was fixing to give Taryn Terrell another post-match assault when Awesome Kong made her surprise return to TNA and caught Havok's attention.

Wardrobe Malfunction: When she was being eliminated from the Bound For Glory gauntlet battle royal, her outfit got caught in the ropes and completely flipped up. And fans got a view of raw Kong in prime condition.

We Used to Be Friends: Kong and Havok were tag team partners prior to their TNA "reunion". If Awesome Kong was proposing they team again, she was a bad communicator, as Havok first tried to avoid her and then tried to fight.

Worked Shoot: During one of her AWA title defenses at Neo World 2007, a referee shouted "Kia" at Amazing Kong when urging her not to put Kyoko Inoue through a table.

Worthy Opponent: Amazing Kong eventually came to consider MsChif and Amy Lee as this, in spite of not liking their tactics, due to their determination. She and Jazz used to think such of Mercedes Martinez in WSU.

You Have Failed Me: Awesome Kong put up with a lot of Raisha's Saeed's antics, but after she accidentally cost her a chance to regain the Knockouts title she lost to Angelina Love, she Awesome Bombed Saeed off the Impact stage.

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